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[Bart van der Werf <bluelive@xxxxxxxxx>]

Adding methods to powerfull baseclasses and then allow them to throw
exceptions when not supported is horrible, why have static type checking
when basic stuff in the framework is designed to only be discovererable if
it is correct at runtime, instead of by the compiler ?

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Amos Wenger <amoswenger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Maybe we should have
>
>    - iterator()
>    - backIterator() (can throw exception if unsupported)
>    - forward() == iterator()
>    - backward() == backIterator() reverse()
>
> The 'iterators are iterable' idiom is particularly useful in cases like
> that:
>
> selectWinners: func (c: List<Clients>) {
> deluxeLimit := 10
>
>
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Noel Cower <ncower@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I like Josh and Rubin's ideas, although I think forward and backward don't
>> really communicate that the iterator is going to be at one end or the other
>> of the list.  Not all iterables are going to have the ability to go
>> forward/backward, so it would make sense, to me at least, to put those in
>> List, but then things like HashMap, which are iterable and can have reverse
>> iteration, won't have those methods.
>>
>> Maybe another subclass of Iterable is necessary to give List and HashMap
>> the same backing without having them be treated as different in terms of
>> their ability to iterate forwards/backwards?  Like BidirectionalIterable or
>> EndedIterable (the former being too long and the latter seems a little odd
>> to me).
>>
>> If we do use forward/backward, should backward always be a reverse
>> iterator?
>>
>> Also, iterable iterators sound nice, and I don't really see why we ought
>> to not do that - wouldn't cost anything, just have the iterator return
>> itself when iterator() is called.
>>
>>  -noel
>>
>> On May 28, 2010, at 9:48 AM, Amos Wenger wrote:
>>
>> I like the proposal of Rubin.
>>
>> Maybe iterator should be iterable? (they would just return themselves)
>>
>> In that case we could write:
>>
>> for(element in list backward())
>>>
>>
>> And ex-Java programmers could even write
>>
>> for(element in list forward())
>>>
>>
>> If they wanted.
>>
>> Amos
>>
>> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 5:59 PM, cd rubin <launchpad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hey all
>>>
>>> In which case shouldn't the methods be called 'forwards' and 'backwards'?
>>> I think that fits better with the language :
>>>
>>> "iterate over a list backwards"
>>>
>>> iter := list backwards()
>>>
>>> and it removes possible confusion stemming from calling the method
>>> 'front' and getting an iterator instead of the first item of the list!
>>>
>>>  - Daniel (cdrubin)
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Josh Roesslein <jroesslein@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Bart makes a good point that not all Iterables will have an ordered
>>>> structure (ex: socket input/output streams).
>>>> I think it would make more sense having front() and back() methods in
>>>> List that returns Iterators that either traverse
>>>> the list head to tail or vice versa.
>>>>
>>>> Josh
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Amos Wenger <amoswenger@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> So what then? iterator~back() ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Bart van der Werf <bluelive@xxxxxxxxx
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not sure.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alot of iterables have no order, so if front/back is the default way
>>>>>> to get an iterator it would make little sense.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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